The natural history of British insects; explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &ctogether with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microcsopeThe whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . C 63 ] PLATE persicarije. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antenna taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed whenat reft. Fly by night. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Thorax crefted, wings deflexed, dark and clouded. A whiteludney-ihaped fpot, with a yellow luna


The natural history of British insects; explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &ctogether with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microcsopeThe whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . C 63 ] PLATE persicarije. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antenna taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed whenat reft. Fly by night. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Thorax crefted, wings deflexed, dark and clouded. A whiteludney-ihaped fpot, with a yellow lunar pupil in the middle on each. Phal^ena Persicari^e: crifta alis deflexis fufco nebulofis: ftig-mate reniformi albo ; pupilla lunari flava. Nat. 2. 847. 142.—Fn. Suec. Inf. 2. 157. Inf. tab. Inf. L -phal. 2. tab. 30. A very common infect ; and is often obferved near fruit trees. PLATE ,57.


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